Mehen
In Egyptian mythology, the name Mehen (), meaning 'coiled one', referred to a mythological snake-god and to a board game. ==Snake god== The earliest known references to Mehen occur in the Coffin Texts. Mehen is a protective deity who is depicted as a snake which coils around the sun god Ra during his journey through the night, for instance in the Amduat.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- egyptian
- Deity.name
- Mehen
- Deity.image
- Book of Gates Barque of Ra cropped.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Mehen surrounding Ra, in the form of a man with a ram head, on his Solar Barque
- Deity.hiero
- mH:n-I12
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- Image
- Book of Gates Barque of Ra cropped.jpg
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- Snake god
- Relationship between snake-god and Mehen game
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In Egyptian mythology, the name Mehen (), meaning 'coiled one', referred to a mythological snake-god and to a board game. ==Snake god== The earliest known references to Mehen occur in the Coffin Texts. Mehen is a protective deity who is depicted as a snake which coils around the sun god Ra during his journey through the night, for instance in the Amduat.
In the German-Egyptian dictionary by R. Hannig, it is said that the Mehen (mḥn) or the Mehenet (mḥnt) snake is equivalent to the Ouroboros.